TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griggs,Jennifer
TI  - Gregory Barhebraeus' Mystical Hermeneutics of the Love of God in Dialogue with Islamic Tradition
T2  - Islamic History and Thought
SN  - 9781463242480
U1  - 281.63092 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religious
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 2. LOCATING BARHEBRAEUS IN GRAECOSYRIAC TRADITION --; CHAPTER 3. THE CONFLICT OF THINKING --; CHAPTER 4. BARHEBRAEUS’ MYSTICISM OF THE LOVE OF GOD --; CHAPTER 5. BARHEBRAEUS’ MYSTICISM IN DIALOGUE WITH ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY --; CHAPTER 6. A HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH FOR THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF MYSTICISM --; CHAPTER 7. SYRIAN HERMENEUTICS AND THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF MYSTICISM --; CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSION --; APPENDIX 1. CHRONOLOGY OF BARHEBRAEUS’ WORKS --; APPENDIX 2. WORKS CITED OF BARHEBRAEUS --; APPENDIX 3. GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - This book explores the mystical thought of Gregory Barhebraeus (1226–1286CE) and its contemporary relevance, to offer a reading of Barhebraeus’ mystical texts by bringing them into conversation with critical religious studies and the hermeneutical tradition of philosophy. Griggs emphasises the problem of conceptual categories for the academic study of mysticism, seeking to avoid traditional assumptions concerning ‘mysticism’ and attend to the particularity of ‘mystic’ traditions. Through this approach, she examines the mystical hermeneutics of the love of God developed by Barhebraeus, as a response to the elaboration of this theme by the Islamic theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī (1058–1111CE), and as a resolution of the tensions between scholastics and ascetics within his own Syriac tradition
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463242480
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463242480
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463242480/original
ER  -